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Fausto Coppi, who won the Giro d'Italia five times between 1940 and 1953. The Giro d'Italia is an annual road bicycle race held in May. Established in 1909 by newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Giro is one of cycling's three "Grand Tours"; along with the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. [1]
The Giro d'Italia is one of cycling's three Grand Tours. A stage race that generally lasts for three weeks, it awards a number of jerseys for winners of certain classifications – the current competitions that award a jersey are: General classification, for the fastest rider to complete the race. The winner wears the maglia rosa (pink jersey).
In previous Giri d'Italia, sometimes a stage was split in two. On such occasions, only the cyclist leading at the end of the day is counted. The "Maglia Rosa" column gives the number of days that the cyclist wore the pink jersey as the leader of the classification [a], the "Giro wins" column gives the number of days that the cyclist won the pink jersey.
Luigi Ganna the winner of the inaugural Giro d'Italia.. The idea of the holding a bicycle race that navigated around Italy was first suggested when La Gazzetta dello Sport editor Tullo Morgagni sent a telegram to both the paper's owner, Emilio Costamagna, and cycling editor, Armando Cougnet, stating the need for an Italian tour.
The Giro d'Italia contains either 21 or 20 stages and a prologue (an individual time trial under 8 km (5 mi) in length) and two or three rest days. [74] [89] There are three types of stages that are used in the Giro d'Italia: the mass-start stages, individual time trials, and team time trials.
It includes Giro d'Italia cyclists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Winners of the Giro d'Italia . These cyclists have each won the Giro d'Italia at least once.
The 2024 Giro d'Italia was the 107th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race. The race started on 4 May in Venaria Reale and finished on 26 May in Rome . There were two individual time trial stages and 4 stages longer than 200 km. [ 1 ]
The 1954 Giro d'Italia was the 37th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours.The Giro started off in Palermo on 21 May with a 36 km (22.4 mi) team time trial and concluded in Milan with a 222 km (137.9 mi) relatively flat mass-start stage on 13 June.